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Some of the techniques we discuss through the rest of the book require a little, well painting And if you take a look at your image editor especially a full-featured one like Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop you ll see a complete set of painting tools These digital gadgets allow you to change the colors in an image on a pixel-by-pixel basis How do they do that Take a look at Table 12-1; there, you can see the most important tools in Paint Shop Pro s Paint toolbar These are fairly typical tools as image editors go; you ll find their equivalent in most other programs

So, let s say that you want to do a bit of painting Let s keep it simple: You just want to paint a solid-colored rectangle in the middle of an image Before you do that, you ll need to know how to select colors in Paint Shop Pro

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You wanted to take a picture with a sharp foreground and a shallow background, but your automatic camera settings didn t cooperate Well, it s easy to simulate the out-of-focus effect that a wide-open aperture gives your background by using the select-invert-blur technique we used to give the subject more apparent sharpness You ll need to heap on liberal amounts of blur for this technique to work, though You can run the Blur filter several times until you get the effect you like

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Description Arrow This tool is used to move image windows around within Paint Shop Pro It s a safe default setting to use since it won t do anything to your image if you click in the picture Zoom Crop Zoom into the image by left-clicking; zoom out by right-clicking You used this tool in 11 It lets you cut out unwanted bits of your picture

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Magic Wand This tool selects a region for editing based on color Since photos have lots of similar colors, you can click on a region and the wand will select everything nearby that s a similar color It s an easy way to select, for instance, a person s face Dropper This tool determines the color of the currently selected pixel and makes that the current foreground color for painting and editing Paint Brush This is just what it sounds like It lets you paint on the image, not unlike the way you d paint with a real brush It s a lot more flexible than a real brush, though, since you can change features like the size and shape of the brush, as well as the amount of paint that you can spread at once Clone Brush This tool lets you paint with pixels found elsewhere in your image, effectively cloning a part of your picture as you paint Color Replacer This great painting tool actually puts the power of many of the program s effects like brightness and hue changes, effects filters, and more into a brush so you can paint them on Scratch Remover Eraser colors This automated tool erases scratches from scanned photographs

This tool allows you to paint with the currently selected foreground and background You can configure this tool to splatter paint on your image like an airbrush

Airbrush

TABLE 12-1

Highlights from the Paint Tools Palette in Paint Shop Pro

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Tool

Description Flood Fill Pours paint into a region The currently selected color will run right up to whatever color edges exist Like the Magic Wand, you can set the color tolerance Text This tool lets you write text anywhere in your image, in any color and any font We talk about this tool in 14 Draw Use this tool to draw straight and curved lines in your image

TABLE 12-1

Highlights from the Paint Tools Palette in Paint Shop Pro (continued)

There are actually two important colors in any imaging program: the foreground color and the background color These are usually displayed prominently on the screen (as in Figure 12-1) for easy access and reference